Description:
This role is responsible for tax compliance and reporting activities performed within Liberty Shared Services (LSS) on behalf of its customers. This will include agreeing delivery requirements with customers and delivering a service in line with those expectations with a focus on driving a culture of continuous process improvement and efficiency enabled by technology.
The LSS Tax Team engages with the appropriate accounting, tax, commercial, legal and treasury teams, ensuring that our goals are met. We strive to provide services that cover multiple local jurisdictions where the tax rules are complex and compliance obligations differ from territory to territory.
What will you be doing?
- Preparation and review of UK and overseas tax computations and tax provision calculations for delivery to LSS customers.
- Preparation and review of international quarterly and year-end tax provision calculations (IFRS and US GAAP).
- Act as point of contact for all customer service delivery issues.
- Seek and implement continuous technological improvements to deliver efficiencies through technology, automation and artificial intelligence solutions.
- Train, support and manage junior members of the tax team.
- Work with customer’s tax and accounting teams to understand enterprise operational requirements for tax processes, and understanding technology environment and interfaces in order to develop the most efficient organisational structure and limit possible exposures and/or errors.
- Ensure the team work seamlessly with other LSS teams, customers and in particular the LG Tax teams to ensure that Tax technical items are correctly reflected in the Tax returns.
- Expand the scope of the LSS Tax team to other/new customers by demonstrating the potential value of the service.
We tend to look for people with:
- ACA or CTA qualified
- Extensive experience of working in a Corporate Tax compliance and/or reporting role
- Experience of UK tax issues such as CIR, CFC, Hybrids, R&D, Group Payment Arrangement etc
- Knowledge of Thompson Reuters ONESOURCE
- Continuous process improvement mindset
- Experience working in a matrix environment where relationships with customers and/or other teams and departments is essential to the success of the Team